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I'm genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.

It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
"... on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said ..."
I really don't think that's needed anymore. But I'm always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.

So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?

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[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?

Yeah, the rest of his life.

Twitter probably will have the same laid upon it.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

You’re referring to the former artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?

For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.

[-] Steve@communick.news 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Prince changed his name to a literally unpronounceable logo. So in that case, there was no real other option.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

If we say that the accepted pronunciation of "X" is "ex" then we run into an even bigger problem than Prince's logo.

"Ex" User says... Is this a former user of the website or current?

A user on the website "ex" is too long winded and sounds like I'm saying a hypothetical.

Users on "ex" - although shorter, X is a street name for ecstacy and user is sometimes used as shorthand for drug user (e.g. User and abuser) so why should we be listening to a cracked out party kid?

The golden ticket is "formerly Twitter" because we actually know what the fuck that one is.

I'm willing to bet there's at least one X user on X right now.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Some places tried calling him "The Artist", but it never stuck. Not even "The Artist formerly known as Prince" stuck. But "Prince" has endured to his grave and beyond.

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